Abstraction Quote by Kerry James Marshall

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

— Henri Matisse

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

— Susan Messing

I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that…

— Mark Rippetoe

Symmetry is key.

— Death The Kid

If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of…

— Peter Adamson

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“As we just saw, some concepts such as symmetries retain their central status. In contrast, other concepts, such as initial conditions, complexity and randomness,…

— Max Tegmark

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't…

— Richard P. Feynman